Journal of Environmental Science International (한국환경과학회지)

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A Study on the Utilization of Green Spaces in Daegu City as the Place for Physical Activities Improving Health

대구시 공원녹지의 건강을 위한 신체활동 공간으로서의 이용실태

  • Moon, Hye-Shick (Department of Environmental Science, Graduate School of Keimyung University) ;
  • Kim, Soo-Bong (Department of Energy & Environmental Planning, Keimyung University)
  • 문혜식 (계명대학교 대학원 환경과학과) ;
  • 김수봉 (계명대학교 에너지환경계획학과)
  • Published : 2009.11.30
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Abstract

Obesity affects various kinds of adult diseases and is a principal cause of injuring people's health. Physical activities are very important to solve the obesity problem and green spaces are good place to take physical activities. In order to examine the utilization of green spaces for physical activities to improve health, the survey was implemented in regards to recognition of health, forms of use of green spaces for physical activities. Only 8.1% of respondents didn't care about health, but 91.9% of them were interested in health more than 'commonness'. 95.2% of respondents knew that obesity has an effect on various adult diseases, and 93.1% of respondents cognized that it's possible to prevent obesity by doing physical activities. More than half of respondents replied that the types of green spaces utilized for physical activities were small-scale neighborhood parks and mini parks around house. About 70% of respondents took walking as a type of physical activities. 53% of respondents utilized green spaces one or two times a week, while 25% of them utilized the places at least three times a week to take physical activities. 91.8% of respondents took exercise for more than 30 minutes. These results are expected to promote health because many experts encourage people to take physical activities at least three times a week because fats of human body begins to bum after 30 minutes from start of physical activities. In the utilizing time of green spaces, evening or after work(56.7%) was higher than morning or before work(35.1%). 71% of respondents usually visited green spaces by walking. This study shows green spaces are good places for physical activities and have boundless potentialities improving people's health.

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